https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/05/20/wikipedia-is-an-establishment-psyop/ .......The reason we are not given a straight answer as to why we’re meant to want our institutions fighting an information war on our behalf (instead of allowing us to sort out fact from fiction on our own like adults) is because the answer is ugly. As we discussed last time, the only real power in this world is the ability to control the dominant narrative about what’s going on. The only reason government works the way it works, money operates the way it operates, and authority rests where it rests is because everyone has agreed to pretend that that’s how things are. In actuality, government, money and authority are all man-made conceptual constructs and the collective can choose to change them whenever it wants. The only reason this hasn’t happened in our deeply dysfunctional society yet is because the plutocrats who rule us have been successful in controlling the narrative. Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. This has always been the case. In many societies throughout history a guy who made alliances with the biggest, baddest group of armed thugs could take control of the narrative by killing people until the dominant narrative was switched to “That guy is our leader now; whatever he says goes.” In modern western society, the real leaders are less obvious, and the narrative is controlled by propaganda. Propaganda is what keeps Americans accepting things like the fake two-party system, growing wealth inequality, medicine money being spent on bombs to be dropped on strangers in stupid immoral wars, and a government which simultaneously creates steadily increasing secrecy privileges for itself and steadily decreasing privacy rights for its citizenry. It’s also what keeps people accepting that a dollar is worth what it’s worth, that personal property works the way it works, that the people on Capitol Hill write the rules, and that you need to behave a certain way around a police officer or he can legally kill you. And therein lies the answer to the question. You are not being protected from “disinformation” by a compassionate government who is deeply troubled to see you believing erroneous beliefs, you are being herded back toward the official narrative by a power establishment which understands that losing control of the narrative means losing power. It has nothing to do with Russia, and it has nothing to do with truth. It’s about power, and the unexpected trouble that existing power structures are having dealing with the public’s newfound ability to network and share information about what is going on in the world. https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
Think Western Religion (Christianity) authored and controlled by Israel. The whole West is brainwashed to accept this as truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Just keep in mind that it is Hamas rejecting an internationally brokered ceasefire deal. This is why they are called terrorists. Negotiations continue despite Hamas refusing ceasefire deal, source tells 'Post' On Thursday, Hamas rejected Israel's proposal to release 10 hostages in exchange for 45 days of ceasefire. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-850598
I'm predisposed to dislike Islam and, frankly, never cared much about Jews, except to note that, in my experience, they were often easy to beat in an argument, usually hard and with a look of "this isn't how this usually goes with goyim", in hostel common rooms. There's a scrappy intellectual relationship between the Irish and Israelis. We used to get on fine. But there's no excuse for what Israel is doing now. It’s not proportional. It drips with evil, the Holocaust trauma is still echoing in them. I effectively witnessed a family being wiped out by IDF snipers and bombs. They were Coptic Christians. They held a patch of land and a church in a part of Gaza that Israel wanted cleared. They were exterminated in a manner once only associated with Nazis. I paid an Israeli-Aran detective to find them. All fifteen I had names for, are dead. I haven’t had the heart to tell my daughter yet. One of them was a cousin of her friend. The hard truth is that Israel breathed life into Hamas. Back in the day, they saw the Muslim Brotherhood and linked, religious Hamas as a useful counterweight to the secular (though still violent) PLO. Gaza’s population is mostly very young. Many weren’t even alive in the 1980s when this cynical game began. Israel is the baddie. That Hamas is also a baddie doesn’t reduce or excuse anything. Israel had options they didn't want to explore because these required openly recognising their part as the Frankenstein creating the monster and also cost a lot of money.
Netanyahu says Israel has ‘no choice’ but to continue fighting in Gaza Mourners grieve over the body of … more > By Wafaa Shurafa and Josef Federman and Samy Magdy Associated Press Saturday, April 19, 2025 DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced again Saturday that Israel has “no choice” but to continue fighting in Gaza and will not end the war before destroying Hamas, freeing the hostages and ensuring that the territory won’t present a threat to Israel. The prime minister also repeated his vow to make sure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu is under growing pressure at home not only from families of hostages and their supporters but also from reservist and retired Israeli soldiers who question the continuation of the war after Israel shattered a ceasefire last month. In his statement, he claimed that Hamas has rejected Israel’s latest proposal to free half the hostages for a continued ceasefire.
Douglas Murray was a first guest of Maher last show and made a pitch for his new book that was glaringly selective. This professor picks that apart very neatly.